How Much is a Billion Dollars?
Sunday June 5, 2005
Every 8 hours and 20 minutes, the U.S. Government spends another billion dollars. (Thank us very much.) A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, let's put a billion into perspective.
A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
Of course, the current public debt is well over $7 Trillion dollars. So, How Much is a Trillion?
Comments
According to my calculation it would be 1973 since this article was published in 2005. 2005 - (1,000,000,000 / 60 x 60 x 24 x 365)